Mithilā
Ūrmilā
Daughter of Janaka, wife of Lakṣmaṇa. Vālmīki mentions her briefly. The story of her fourteen-year sleep comes from later tradition.
Bāla KāṇḍaVālmīki (primary text)In the text
Ūrmilā is Sītā's younger sister. Her wedding to Lakṣmaṇa is one of four held together at Mithilā, which also joined Bharata and Śatrughna to Janaka's two nieces. After that the text barely mentions her. Later poets and regional traditions gave her an inner life, and modern writers have taken up her story.
Primary text: Śrīmad Vālmīkīya Rāmāyaṇa, Gita Press, Gorakhpur. Later traditions and living-tradition associations are labelled as such. Return to the Rāmāyaṇa World.